bill875

I pre-ordered from the Wirefly Friends and Family Store and this is the message I received today: "Dear Bill, Thank you for ordering from Wirefly Friends and Family Store. Great News! We learned overnight that US officials finally cleared the Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE shipment and they will soon be on their way to Sprint and, of course, us. We do not have a definitive delivery date yet, but we’ve done this many times before and we can assure you that the phones will literally spend about 1 hour in our distribution facility before we ship them out the door. To be fair to all of our customers, we are shipping the phones in the order in which the purchases were made. We will send you an email as soon as your device is ready to ship. If you wish to make any modifications to your order, now would be a good time to do so because when the phones arrive, we’ll be heads-down working to get them out the door ASAP. We are glad that Sprint, HTC, and the US Government were able to come to agreement because this is one incredible device and from everything we’ve heard, worth the wait. Thanks again for shopping with us. We appreciate your business. Sincerely, You Friends at Wirefly Friends and Family Store" So it still is unknown, but at least they finally communicated to us.

So is the speculation that Sprint will just buy them out?

Does anyone know if the upcoming EVO 4G LTE will have this simultaneous voice and data capability without LTE or WiFi?

Fireguy, the entire Sprint owned network will be getting LTE. The only area where future NV/LTE deployment is not known is the Swiftel Affiliate operated area in Brookings, South Dakota. Edit: To expand on that, Sprint has one other affiliate area owned/operated by Shentel in northern Virginia, and parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia. They have committed to deploying Network Vision and LTE.

Wow, I'm lucky if I ever get below 160ms around these parts. I am very jealous.